pulled the number 2 stories from asia and the pacific on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. after an attack on a u.s. base in iraq iran's president says the real revenge for some of money is assassination will be to push america out of the region. the u.s. president downplays iranian retaliate and saying that all is well we'll be live in washington with the latest. on this the world waits to see what happens next

a ukrainian airliner crashes minutes after takeoff in iran all 176 people on board are killed. i should have never been arrested in the 1st place the former. accuses japanese prosecutors of collusion in his 1st public appearance since skipping bail. and i'm far and smile have all the day's sport including le bron james leads the l.a. lakers to a big a win against the new york knicks for their 6th victory in a row. iran has struck back at the u.s. for the assassination of its top commander custom solomonic and it's making it clear what happens next depends upon donald trump iran fired more than a dozen missiles from its territory into a base hosting u.s. forces in iraq. the i and assad base in anbar province around the same time

according to iraq missiles also hit a base in erbil $22.00 of them were fired in total and there were no iraqi casualties u.s. president donald trump was only responded to the attacks on twitter saying all is well we're expecting a statement from the him in about an hour's time iran's strikes are in retaliation for the killing of samani in a u.s. airstrike last friday we have a team of correspondents covering developments in a few moments to also debris will have the latest from tehran we'll also speak be speaking to some of the 14 is in the iraqi capital baghdad and our white house correspondent kimberly how could we'll have more on president trump's reaction to the strikes so far but 1st a report from 0 to 0. this is iran's promised response to the u.s. assassination of top iranian general hossam soleimani ballistic missiles soaring into the night sky there target an iraqi military base housing thousands of u.s.

soldiers iranians are taking the credit to hit back directly they wouldn't even leave their proxies to deliver the message that their american. kind of saving face order because. it's an insult from the american. iranian establishment to iranian its state all and therefore i think. has to retaliate on twitter this was us president donald trump's response all is well he's added casualties and damage are being assessed and said so far so good he's also said the u.s. has the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far the question is whether that military will be used to retaliate against these attacks u.s. troops. the alena sadir base in iraq one of 2 targets hit by missiles ever since

president scuttled the. there has been a step. or escalation and that either side can afford to give it its own look weak the leaders of both sides have committed to this escalation and it's hard to see how it how it gets you know where the operatives of them are that the u.s. says it's killing of cars some sort of money in an air strike was in response to an attack in iraq in which a u.s. contractor died idol which the u.s. blames iran and iran huge crowds have been in mourning. and demanding revenge for so money's death an immediate diplomatic solution to the crisis seems unlikely . both sides have to be really through engage in diplomacy and right now i fear that i do not see that i do not see either side the iranian or the american

willing to do the things necessary to engage in diplomacy. iran wants u.s. forces to permanently leave the gulf region and it says there will be a harsh response to any further u.s. retaliation rob matheson al jazeera. iran's president says that revenge for solomon is assassination warning clued saying the u.s. kicked out of the middle east. yes says soleimani as easy a model all they cast off the hand of our dia soleimani and you saw his revered hand in his body in videos and pictures the revenge for this is to force america out of this region the real revenge of the ultimate response by regional nations as we america is expelled from this region and its head of aggression is cast off for river and foreign minister says that his government remains poised to react to any further escalation. people said very clearly that if the united states takes any of

that action it on view to respond accordingly and we would respond in a very harsh way but proportionately did not start this process of escalation day united states rage an economic war against iran the united states has to come to its senses the presence of iranian people in the streets of many cities unprecedented in the history europe can play a useful role by informing the united states of the c.d.'s that are in that are not this is that they should stop listening to clowns that they should base their policy based on realities and not some evolutions of some clowns who have ambitions of script all right let's go live now to teheran al-jazeera store such a bari is with us from there so iran's leaders have been speaking today dore said the supreme leader said that the missile strike was a slap in the face for the u.s.

what else did he say. yes the supreme leader making a very clear that this is just the start that the assassination of us until the money is a serious red line for the iranians and that there will be further responses and that this military confrontation that is looming really is something that is out of the hands of everybody now because the united states has to leave this region that is the request that is the demand of the iranian officials not only the supreme leader make that very clear we've also heard that from the president and various other high ranking officials the way news want the u.s. troops to leave this region they say that they death of course and so money and his assassination is the price that they've had to pay for this until the united states does so they are in great danger or they u.s. troops that currently are in this region are a target they've made that very clear and not. nights are the early this morning

that missile attack on the u.s. base in iraq is an indication of what's to come unless the united states decides to leave this region completely we've also been waiting for the revolutionary guards media relations department they've said that they will release a more detailed account of the. missile strikes that they've carried out so we're waiting to find out what more they have to add to this after another tense day in the region and there in iran what's the mood tonight on. at. well the mood here has been quite somber over the past few days really that hasn't changed today's just more tense i would say since the assassination of money that their country was in shock and then and now anger so i think people are expecting some they were expecting this attack but we're there now waiting to see what the united states will do

everybody wants to know what the americans will say and do in the hours ahead i think there is a sense that there is something quite gloomy heading this way but i think we are waiting to find out what the u.s. will say and the fact that the reasons i chose to carry out a missile or launching missiles at this airbase in iraq is significant because we haven't heard of any actual u.s. casualties i think that's the most important thing the rain means obviously wanted to use this as a warning as the supreme leader slop in the face not a full on confrontation just yet so i think in the next few hours a week critical to determine what is coming in the days and weeks ahead also many thanks indeed for the live in. out of baghdad down to 0 some of the full team is there for us iraq's prime minister has been talking of a dangerous crisis what's he been saying. well the prime

minister's media office issued a statement following these attacks by iran on military bases here in iraq and he basically recounted the course of events saying that he only received an oral message from iran the these attacks were about to occur just minutes before or just as they were unfolding and he also said that he did receive phone calls from american officials here basically saying that they were being attacked so it sounds like iraq had no information that these attacks would indeed take place and he did also condemn these attacks saying that they are a violation of iraqi sovereignty now of course many people are comparing his reaction to his reaction to the u.s. strike that killed kasem so the money as well as hundreds the 2nd in charge of the popular mobilization forces to see whether his condemnations are even handed in the

wake of this u.s. strikes we've seen very strong reactions from the government calling these strikes and aggression against iraq he stays and subsequent to subsequently we've seen the prime minister give a speech in front of parliament demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops from iraq so some people feel that his response to this latest strike was not as strong especially from the sunni parliamentarians who feel that the government's response to this overall crisis has been very weak and that in fact it cannot prevent this crisis from playing out on iraqi soil and that's exactly what many ordinary iraqis fear and they feel that they will be caught up in a conflict that they did not choose and they feel that if this escalates further it could become the collateral damage if these tips for taxed for tat strikes continue similar dude iraq give us advance warning of strikes and who.

iran says. well currently we have no claims of responsibility to suggest that anybody else hit below apart from iran of course no actual military base. these missiles landed in an open field it did not damage anything and there are no other claims of responsibility that did occur around the same time as the i know acid attacks which suggests that it may have been perpetrated also by iran now what many people here worry about is how these attacks and this crisis overall could impact the coalition which is here in dns to fight this coalition consists of over 30 countries and it is led by the united states but of course there are many other partners that are in discoloration and what we've seen since this crisis escalated is a temporary pause in anti sloper ations we've also seen some troops being redeployed inside iraq but also some of them leaving iraq altogether so they're

somewhat there is a sense that this coalition may be falling apart and of course at this moment iceland is pretty weak but there is a risk that as this coalition. leaves the country or perhaps pass' activities for a long time that this may give eisel a chance to once again become stronger to once again start mounting attacks on iraqi civilians and security officials and of course this crisis has overall distracted the attention away from any aid programs from any reconstruction effort so people here feel that they are going backwards 0 sort of 14 reporting live from baghdad somebody thinks did let's go live to washington our white house correspondent kimberly how could a standing by for us all is well or the president tweeted last night u.s. time after the attack when we hear from him today. we expect to hear from the

president in the next hour but that tweet that the president sent out late tuesday evening all is well with certainly a shift in tone from what we had heard from the president in the previous days leading up to those attacks on those 2 bases in fact it was striking because the president had been tweeting sometimes rather favor slee even an all caps saying things warning retaliate there would be retaliation against iran if they attack u.s. interests saying that he would deploy brand new beautiful weaponry that he would have a disproportionate attack that would be without hesitation yet when those attacks came there was hesitation so we're waiting to see why there was that hesitation what the president will say about that perhaps it was as we know as he was surrounded by his national security advisers to see if that those attacks would continue if they would escalate even further if americans would be killed we don't

simply don't know so these are the questions that need to be answered by this president and again we are awaiting that statement to come as the white house has promised in the next hour but it could have been much worse of course is that a feeling within the administration the perhaps iran deliberately missed its targets. well you know there has been some widely reported now speculation that that is exactly the case that this may have been an attempt to save face to send a bit of a warning if you will to the united states but again the problem with this president is the lack of consistency in the message as of this is going to be a challenge for this president he needs to demonstrate now that as a wartime president if you will that he needs it has some consistency this is that a president known for his inconsistency so there's some careful watching for all of that there is also going to be here in washington some briefings that will take place because members of congress are not happy that they have not been kept in the

loop on all of this we know that the secretary of state the defense secretary among others in the president's team will be briefing members of congress the concern is that the congress has not been adequately notified has not been provided intelligence for the u.s. actions this is all part of what we are expecting to hear not only in those briefings and the details that might be leaked from that but also from the president in the coming hour a white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks al-jazeera city a political analyst mullen bashar is with me here in the studio iran's foreign minister zarif said on twitter just after the attacks that iran took and concluded proportional measures in self defense so is that is is there any more you know that could be but i think it would still be more of the same meaning they're on incapable of facing the united states in the battlefield so it will have to take the

a symmetrical road and that means. either tactical operations or covert operations or a sort of a low intensity long term conflict with the united states or attacks that its proxies absolutely and certainly with the there we've heard from the force or the. 3rd 'd if you will of iran's allies assets in the area for a modern medic who's sort of the head of the who thiis and yemen of course praising iran courage and wisdom and so on and so forth and clearly yemen is yet another one of those fronts that iran could use moving forward so all in all iran has a number of options many options i would say but all of them are more of the same and more of them are within the logic of the cold war that we've seen between iran and the united states over the last 40 years even though in the last few days it did heat up and it could continue to heat up but it would still remain within

a certain limit and that's why i think the bluster is far more than what in actuality is or could happen and yet something could happen because of the escalation of the last 3 days to give any credence to this theory that iran choose its targets very carefully but when it came to it deliberately missed if you like all or chose not to inflict the damage the kind of damage that that it could have done well we certainly we know something for sure we don't know if they missed or not but we know something for sure is that they did inform the iraqis knowing that the iraqis will inform the americans hence they had a military base hoping not to kill anyone hoping that they won't go down to the bunker and that this would be more of a symbolic all right so what do you make of that just it's a symbolism is it then it is but but but this is the thing so you do and you've taken up what you take you to give the tech certain measures you attack. the the

american base you're informed people that you know to hide and so on so forth but then you announce on state t.v. that you attack the american bases and that you've killed 80 americans. that is more than enough. to show that you are not afraid to project the kind of courage that you need to project the kind of confidence you need to project and that you have the will and the power to revenge or to avenge the killing of one of your genitals so it doesn't really it doesn't really matter what happens on the ground what matters is what happens in the public perception and in this sense iran did succeed talking of public perception the supreme leader mohamed he said that military action like this is insufficient what's important is ending the corrupting presence of america in the region to what extent was the assassination of sum of money a p.r. disaster for the americans in this region or was their image so so turkish so

low that it couldn't go to the lower actually certainly the iran benefits of the law certainly the regime i'm saying the regime benefit a lot out of this operation it lost one general an important general but it gained now major foothold in iraq it's all eyes now on the on the uptake as it were it's gaining more and more within iran where it was also facing challenge from popular forces against that is jean and a number of other things on the on the nuclear front on the russian chinese front on the gulf front so i think that given momentum you and yet i would say and my i might surprise you here. is that iran might not be so wrong on that things might be changing but that's because president trump has always always said that i want to get out of the middle east i want to get out of the hot spots of the middle

east and he did use the assassination of a bucket about that the as a ticket out of syria will he use the assassination of course of syria money as a ticket to redeploy out of iraq. that would work both for his own for ali how many's benefit. is this a possibility i think it is we're going to have for him in the next hour yes let's see what he has to say but he thinks did i was there a city a political analyst moment bashar kuwait's government says that a media report about u.s. military forces withdrawing from the country is false and was the result of a hack of its state run news agency and alerts on the agency's twitter feed said the defense minister had received a letter from a u.s. commander saying that american troops based in kuwait would leave within 3 days it's not the 1st time this kind of cyber attack has been reported in the region in 2017 cats are blamed hackers for a fake report on its national news agency criticizing u.s.

foreign policy. several airlines have canceled their flights to teheran while others have rerouted their planes to avoid iranian airspace the u.s. federal aviation authority has banned american airlines from flying in the airspace above iraq iran and the gulf of oman it says that there is a potential for miscalculation or mis identification. in the region in iran a ukrainian passenger plane has crashed minutes after takeoff all 176 passengers and crew on board the boeing 737 were killed the airline says the plane was serviced just 2 days ago i was there as laura bush manley reports. a ukraine international airlines 737 bound for kiev reduced to smoke and wreckage. all those on board killed. rescue crew and emergency personnel pick through what's

left natasha johnson mom home any airport. video released on social media shows a faint light flickering and then a fireball. the boeing jet set off from town early on wednesday after being delayed put almost an hour but. fortunately it didn't crash in the reason into area but the wreckage has scarcity around the gardens of villas within a large radius nobody has survived. this mother and father a flight attendant on ukraine international airlines who waiting for his arrival in kiev now they're waiting for any news or told. my son is a senior flight attendant my daughter called at 615 this morning to say that in the us they were reporting that a plane had crashed a ukrainian international airlines plane she asked were equal or was flying to and

we said teheran and that he would return on the morning flight and then we found the video of the plane crashing. the plane was scheduled to head to boris bill international airport the ukrainian capital of kiev minutes after the boeing 737-2800 jet left the wrong way it went down in a suburb southwest of the reigning capital boeing says it's gathering more information the 737-2800 is a common single of twin engine jet slyness use for short to medium range flights it's an older model in the boeing 737 max that's been grounded for nearly 10 months following 2 deadly crashes it's a huge setback for a company that has tried to regain trust and bring the 77 max back to the skies and boeing would likely have questions to answer 2 from the families of the victims of this crash. about a manly al-jazeera of the aircraft that crashed in tehran was

a boeing 737800 the version was developed in the 1990 s. it had its 1st flies in july 1997 the last 737800 was delivered in december almost 5000 of them are in use around the world the model supposed to replace at the 77 max has been grounded since early last year following 2 crashes as an aviation wiser for air transport world he joins us now via skype from salzburg good to have you with us kurt what on earth would cause a crash like this just after takeoff. well as we're seeing on the video that was the something burning like an engine we have 2 or no ordinary proficient burning actually can slide by not can eliminate the fire we don't know so fine if there was an explosion in the engine which of course creates a really a difficult situation for an aircraft that it says something about the center's

descendants and. others ukraine in the national debt insist changed list of max from that rounding because the media urgently and so went down many questions remain and it is important to know what investigations we don't find out especially we see this in a very sensitive area around here around and a moment iran and the us situation ukraine has seemed to suggest that the aircraft came down due to what it describes as engine failure would have to be a pretty kettle a catastrophic failure to board the aircraft down wouldn't it i mean they're designed to fly on just one engine. you're absolutely right every aircraft let's say it out to 2 engines it can find we can't aircraft and i'm not i don't can't eliminate a fire we don't know which kind of cardiac situation maybe was in that aircraft this creates a lot of question marks i also find it not very well a place that make an announcement very early in the morning already it is more than

ever i think for us we need more informations because we can announce things like death so many questions remain others there are reports that iran will not be handing over the black box flight recorder to boeing the aircraft manufacturer. what do you make of those reports. well ken in dimension in this situation at the moment being the u.s. to be around they're not willing to do this but there are some independents also it is which can also work on other fronts there's a recorder like you that wrestle someone else so i think it will be important and necessary to find out not object a neutral investigation team to elicit wish to talk to curb many thanks again for being with us on houses or muslims or thank you the former this time chairman cosco on the has spoken publicly for the 1st time since fleeing trial in japan accusing

prosecutors of conspiring with the automaker to force him out of the company has been in lebanon since his dramatic escape last week he was out on bail awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct which he says are baseless. i'm not here to victimize myself i'm here to shed light on a system that violates the most basic principles of humanity i'm here to clear my name to pronounce clearly and the party could be something that was interpreted as a result in the japanese you destroyed system these allegations are true and i should have never been arrested in the 1st place let's go live out of beirut how seriously to heart i was at that said the press briefing that the go game he was speaking for a long time what was over 90 minutes what else to do ses i. well basically defending himself what carlos going wanted to do was use this press

conference to give his side of the story to reiterate his innocence and to accuse the japanese judicial system of being quote rigs as you can see this case has garnered international attention this is the 1st time he has appeared in public since that dramatic escape journalists and everyone really was waiting to hear how he managed to leave japan how did he escape bail skipped bail and there have been a lot of reports a lot of speculation but what one said was that i'm not here to talk about i'm here to talk about why this case saying that this is really one of the most difficult decisions he has taken his life he kept on repeating that he doesn't want to escape justice what he did escape from was injustice he talked about what he called the harsh conditions during his detention he said he was interrogated 8 hours a day it was told to confess it wasn't allowed access to his lawyers so his family

so what he did basically is trying to defend himself in front of the world media a man who is really an international fugitive but in lebanon not being treated as a criminal of zeros and a hot. reporting live from beirut. many thanks indeed. we'll get a weather update next here on that then. 5 years in the making of finally open how russia stands to benefit from a new gas pipeline through turkey. we'll tell you why millions of indian workers of walked off the job. the real madrid are in saudi arabia for the spanish super cup but not many of their fans of made the journey all the details coming up later in sports.

alan the rain is easing a bit in the levantine kosar lebanon israel and syria for example but there's more rain to come further south so that looks active that swirl of cloud is indeed active we've got now the coming together of winds in central saudi arabia so this suddenly raised cross into quarter and what's remaining of isham are coming down from the north give you this blue versus developing rain through bahrain qatar and iran that's probably slow moving occasionally sundry rain the more active and windy stuff is in northern egypt and running up the coast the eastern med towards southern turkey there so turkey now looks dry so it's 2 days of this rain fading and this growing and moving south into u.a.e. and again staying in iran followed eventually course by the. now if you move further west this should be nothing going on this time the apart from a bit of a breeze the hamas and breeze blowing through chattanooga that is exactly what's happening across the mediterranean coast is as you already mentioned rather windy

weather typically for egypt in parts of libya otherwise you will go a long way south africa's far the actual proper rain it's there swirling around from angola than toward south africa precious difficult in mozambique. frank assessments the one being about these bushfires usage really wiped them out all of the climate churn informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on both through school improvement cold war noise going 'd up all over this argument is astonishingly partridge time doing in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian cultural inside story on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks this bushfires season is far from over but it's coldest so much devastation

across a strain. with detail coverage campaigners say for the hundreds of show during the unseen a just us do you think on the streets of tyrus and feel this generalism senators are preparing for a briefing on the u.s. military strike and whatever response it may bring. well again it's good to have a little savory and for going to here in doha with the news hour from al-jazeera headlines iran's president says the real revenge for the assassination of its top commander custom sort of money will be kicking the u.s.

out of the middle east that statement just hours after iran launched missile attacks on bases hosting u.s. troops in iraq. u.s. president donald trump is due to make a statement on the attacks in around half an hour from now earlier he posted a response on twitter saying all is well. israel's prime minister has warned that anyone who tries to attack his country will be hit hard by german netanyahu emphasized that he fully supports the united states actions president should be. acting swiftly boldly and resolute against this. thank you thank you to india. was the architect. of iran's campaign of carnage in. the middle east and throughout the world.

it's very important to say. as i do now is. that israel still has complete. states thank you thank the european union has called for restraint its head of foreign policy had this to say. that current situation good to raise their 1st full defies years and also has implications for the work of the. polish. delays the rocket attack on air bases in iraq used by us and equally 2 forces among them the dupion forces yet another example of excavation and increased confrontation russia and turkey have inaugurated a pipeline project which they say has historical importance whatever percentage of top of the one launched a new gas pipeline that is took stream at

a ceremony in istanbul it's been 5 years in the making and reinforces energy ties between the 2 countries it allows russia to sell more gas to europe and bypass ukraine let's go live the rest out or get more of this from al-jazeera so them. how important to them is this pipeline. but and this pipeline is symbolically important because they 2 leaders were committed to. the spy plan despite a very big diplomatic crisis between the 2 countries back in 2015 when turkish shut down the russian jets so it was a mass after that but in 2016 the relations got normalized and in 2017 they decided to build up this pipeline this pipeline is not only a carrying the russian natural gas to turkey from of through turkey to europe but this is seen as a seal of unbreakable by later of the late sions between moscow and ankara this is

how the turkish and the russian leaders political figures into print on this pipeline but of course this pipeline was not the only big story during this visit today because prior to the integration ceremony 2 leaders russian president and turkish president came together they had a tape meeting and they had a delegation all talks and they issued a written statement saying that they will be they are calling on a ceasefire in libya on january 12th beginning from midnight and they are actually they took the initiative it to be intermediaries for libya between the 2 sides forests for a solution between a moan with the libyan people for a sus thing of all peace and stability in libya it's a mini thanks indeed sinon conceal and they're reporting live from istanbul all the turks stream pipeline starts in the southern russian town of an opposition runs for

the 1000100 kilometers deep under the black sea so the turkish joint town of care call it it can transport over 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas a year half of that will be delivered to southern europe servicing up to 3 percent of the u.s current needs russia already supplies around 40 percent of europe's gas routes is important because it. helps russia by pos apply lines through ukraine which now faces losing billions in gas transit fees the $2.00 countries have been in conflict since $24.00 team matthew bryza is a senior have from a panel and take councils eurasia sent out a global energy center he says that the move represents a new direction it's a case foreign policy in turkey foreign policy has shifted in the last 6 months or so in quite a significant way since the 1923 when the ottoman empire finished and the modern turkish republic was formed though the core model of turkey's foreign policy was he

said home peace in the world which was sort of an isolationist approach in the last 6 months turkey has begun asserting what it sees as its rights throughout the mediterranean region so that includes cyprus where it's begun drilling for oil and gas and cypriot waters much to the consternation of the e.u. that includes syria where turkey has conducted operation peace spring in northern syria to push the white b.g. as a terrorist militia away from the border and then that's happening now in libya where turkey has reached a maritime demarcation agreement with libya that would effectively allow turkey to claim rights for oil and gas exploration that otherwise greece would claim and could obstruct a natural gas pipeline from israel to cyprus to greece to turkey opposes preferring a pipeline from possibly from israel to turkey so turkey is making 3 big geo political moves now 2 of which are directly related to energy. but something out of a top story the reaction to iranian retaliation against the killing of the top

military commander some sort of money in the last few minutes u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has been speaking about the iranian missile strikes let's go live now to capitol hill just give us what is your castro is there what it because will say heidi. later mcconnell is the top republican in the senate he was among those briefed by the white house last night shortly after these missile strikes and today he said that americans need to remain vigilant of threats of tehran he says it appears that there were no american casualties as a result of the strikes but that they do show significant progress in the last decade of iran developing these longer range missiles something that republicans have warned of saying that this was not adequately addressed in the nuclear deal that the one of the reasons that the u.s. backed out of it under trump's administration now of course the big big news

expected here on capitol hill today will come this afternoon when members of congress are scheduled to be briefed on what the particular intelligence was that led to the u.s. drone strike that killed some sulaimani earlier democrats have been outspoken in their criticism of the lack of transparency from the trump administration we know several republicans may have been briefed by the president prior to that strike but there's no indication that any democrats were told about it democrats thus are saying that they're questioning whether that strike itself was legal because congress does have to be consulted if the u.s. were to declare war on iran and later today they will the members of congress are expected to be briefed by top intelligence and defense officials including the secretary of. fans as well as the secretary of state as to what this intelligence

was and of course the next half hour members of congress are also expecting to see exactly what the president's own response will be to these strikes overnight a lot of anticipation there as you never know what to expect when trump speaks and this is something about members of congress are watching with bated breath but even he thinks how does your caster live on capitol hill there in washington. the new leader of the european commission has warned britain that negotiating a new trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. will be tough but his years of leave the e.u. on january 31st and negotiations for a new economic relationship will begin almost immediately we will work for solutions that uphold the integrity of the european union its single market and its customs union there can be no compromise on that but we are ready to design a new partnership with 0 tariffs 0 cultus 0

dumping a partnership that goes well beyond trade and is unprecedented in scope everything from climate action to data protection fisheries and the g.e. transport space financial services and to security let's get some analysis on this from of zeros paul brennan who's with us live from london there have been speculation paul on the land would tread softly on this 1st visit to london. following boris johnson's election victory but it seems the gloves are off . well it's difficult as all good diplomats do adrian she talked but in with a soft tone you know you hear she's hardly hectoring in that tone but the actual content of what she had to say was fairly bleak in its in its assessment of exactly

what needs to be done in the next 1112 months but realistically 11 months starting from the 31st of january and i'll run you through some of the other highlights you said the european ready and your opinion are ready to negotiate a treaty ambitious and comprehensive new partnership for the united kingdom but the truth is that our partnership can also will not be the same as before with every decision comes a trade off without the free movement of people you cannot have free movement of capital goods and services without a level playing field on the environment labor taxation state aid you cannot have the highest quality access to the world's largest single market so what he's saying that the prime minister boris johnson is you might want to have access to us at the same time as you want access to the to the american market but there are certain rules that have to be observed if you want access to your opinion so why did she come face to face with boris johnson. about 10 minutes ago i've been sitting in here i haven't actually seen whether she's arrived or not but she was

jus to arrive in downing street for talks with the prime minister at about half past 3 g.m.t. so that's about 15 minutes ago and the early indications whether this was really going to be a courtesy visit of course the trade talks won't start can't start legitimately until after the 31st of january because various ratifications need to take place the there is a bill going through the british parliament at the moment in the european parliament also house to vote before the trade talks officially can start but these constructive preamble meetings are very important as both sides sets out their position and what they expect because as on the land said in a lecture at the london school of economics the time is very very tight on this and it may be that we that the 2 sides can't agree everything and maybe they have to prioritize some areas where there aren't existing international agreements so the question mark for the british side will will be whether they expect all or whether

they will accept nothing it's it's a trade off the from the land spoke about and should be mentioning that again to boris johnson and down the street now deserves paul brown live in london paul many thanks indeed millions of workers in india are on strike protesting against the government's economic policies almost the among the most affected disaffected rather farmers with rule poverty a major issue and 0 so hell robin has more from put job. impassioned stories to solve by this group of farmers as one by one they take to the microphone this group of several 100 is being replicated across the state of punjab on a national day of protests it's not just farmers but it's students and unions are calling for the country at large to come out on strike a moderate against the government to economic policy and social. the farmers here not just in punjab but in places like. andhra pradesh and west bengal. is

trying to get a minimal amount on that process. but also to try and bring to the notice of the government to new delhi the ongoing crisis of suicide as many as 4 foreigners killed themselves each day here in india across the country. and of course the economic woes and social problems there do associate with regards to registration and i tend to take a real concern here they're hoping that their voices of chinese will be heard in new delhi that prime minister narendra modi's government of listened to those concerns and. i think 4 people have been killed by a car bomb near somalia's presidential palace an explosion at the security checkpoint for the building in the capital mogadishu. claimed responsibility a week after it carried out another bombing in the city that killed 19 people. 4

students have been killed by suspected fighters from the armed group al-shabaab at a school in northern kenya it comes as the united states has increased its military presence in the country it's deployed additional soldiers to man the bay air base after an attack by al shabaab on sunday reports from nairobi. they'd just arrived at boarding school they didn't live to attend their 1st class of the. suspected attackers from the armed group al-shabaab burst into the teenage boy's dormitory when they were sleeping here in curious a county northern kenya we had. bullets. will not go anywhere. i was just in my house. the other way he had them shelter along. the village police fled it took more than an hour for special forces to arrive. his communications master with the sight of

a firefight 2 of the attackers were killed here others fled office us are getting towards us why bother to. be able. to walk them. and. still pursuing. below politicians say they'd known the attackers were in the area for days beforehand but nothing was done i wondered why the government which had that intelligence the id act in no way not previous because they ought to have reinforced there's equality which were there it's the latest in a series of attacks by the somali armed group in recent weeks as it continues its fight against the united states and kenyan military's and their allies the kenyan army has been in neighboring somalia for nearly 10 years. on sunday al shabaab

fighters attacked a military airbase in kenya the u.s. says 3 american defense personnel were killed and it since deployed more soldiers there al-shabaab released these images saying it destroyed kenyan and american aircraft. just a week before more than 80 people were killed in somalia's capital mogadishu most of them students by a truck bomb. claimed responsibility the u.s. and its partners have responded to the attacks with airstrikes fighting al shabaab in somalia for nearly a decade but the armed group has shown its still capable of devastating attacks and its civilians who keep bearing the brunt of the violence malcolm web al-jazeera nairobi kenya. just ahead on the news out of the sport the olympic flame isn't the only source of making an impact at the winter olympics.

are going to support his far adrian thank you so much bron james was the standout player as the l.a. lakers claimed a 63 victory in the n.b.a. brand scored 31 points as the western conference leaders thrashed the new york knicks by 30 but it wasn't all good news for l.a. their 2nd best player anthony davis left the game after falling heavily on his back . it is not an x. ray but the extent of the injury is not yet clear and another link is player can

tell me as cadwell pope was roughed up a bit all attempting a dunk he was taken out by the knicks is bobby porches he was not surprisingly objected from this game. of the founding n.b.a. champions the draw in the raptors loss to the portland trailblazers but the scores level. landed this 2 pointer with 4 seconds remaining that meant portland wanted 101 to 99. i was some great plays by brooklyn nets player jouret allen against oklahoma city thunder 1st in attack with a spectacular donk move apparently known as monster tomahawk and then and it fronts this time to deny terrence ferguson right as efforts though it was the founder who came out on top 107 to 103. of sodium on a has become just the 2nd assemblies footballer to be named african player of the year the liverpool forward picked up the award at

a ceremony in egypt on wednesday the 27 year old edged out algeria's red marez and his liverpool team mates mohamed solid to claim the prize. is the only other semoga least player to win the award money has won the european champions league and the world cup in the last year. i would love to think all the usual. so in my village i'm really come very very far. but it's more. i'm sure there would be. a rebound spanish super cup kicks off in saudi arabia later on wednesday but very few fans are making the journey from spain this was athletico major it arriving in jet ahead of their semifinal against barcelona but i'd let it go say they've only sold 50 take it's to fans in spain and the other

3 teams have had a similar problem convincing supporters to travel thousands of miles around with dread and barcelona have barely sold 80000 tickets between them while the lancy have managed just $26.00 all 3 matches are still expected to be sold out at the $62000.00 capacity king abilify sports city stadium but will be mainly local fans in attendance all the new format sees fourteen's competing instead of to the winner and runners from the copa del rey around the judge play their semifinal against valencia later it's the 2nd time the event has been held outside of spain last year barcelona won the title in morocco. i'm very happy to be here in saudi arabia because we're going to play an important competition and that's what motivates me i think it's the same for the play is a supposed all plans that something else i'm here at a professional capacity we have been received very well and we are appreciative of

saudi arabia we haven't come it's a go sight seeing. over the next few weeks footballers in asia have a shot at winning a place in the tokyo olympics the asian under $23.00 championship in thailand is serving as a qualifying tournament with the top 3 teams earning a spot and the opening match australia took the lead against iraq with a free kick from ran out this the pro. but iraq level things up with this effort from the home of the c. 11 of the finest hour a russian ice skater is in life threatening condition after falling during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the us that winter olympics in switzerland she reportedly fell from 5 meters on to the ice while attached to a cable the ceremony is due to take place in the sand on the thursday games organizers and the international olympic committee set a new joint statement that they wish the performer a fast and full recovery police are investigating the incident as well number 2 novak djokovic has helped continue his country's perfect run at the a.t.p.

cup in australia jock which winning his singles matches serbia be chilly in brisbane it's a 3rd straight win for serbia who topped group a in our move into the quarter finals the a.t.p. cup is a new $24.00 nation a vent which kicks off the men's season. spinner also went to the last 8 to well number one rafa nadal searing his team to a win over japan like serbia spain won all 3 of their group matches won both his singles and doubles match in this tie as his country aims to add this title to the davis cup trophy they won in november. argentina have set up a quarter final with russia and diego schwartzman winning their singles matches and a group decider with croatia. ok and that is all your support for now if you're in back to you for many thanks dave that is it for the news of course the news never stops i'll be back in just a couple of months i talk to cheer on the day's top stories including that briefing

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